Morris tribune., 1887-02-09


! the state auditor to the public examiner: joint
resolution to mcmOriaiiZe Agress to extend the
arrears act; providing for sum!nonlng Witnesses
! for defendants in criminal cases where de-
! PENDANTS destitute Of means 10 pay therefor;
| to exempt uudertakcrs and their assistants from
! jury duty; amending section 3, c1apLer -, re
! lating to roads and bridges; amending section
! H. chapter So, General Statutes ISIS, relating
| to time Of commencing action; fixing and limit
| ing the fees Of jurors; amending the charter q
| the city Of Minneapolis: detachlng territory
| from Morrison county, and attaching the same
| to the county OF Cass: an act for the relief OF
| James ?. Pond: authorizing change Of bOunda
| ries OF school districts in LIE Sueur county.
SENATE.
| Not in session.
The session of the house had just opened
| yesterday morning when Mr.. DonneLy sent
up to the speakers chair the following reso-
| luton:
Resolved That the speaker is hereby directed
! to appoint special committee Of five members
| of the house to inquire and report 70 this house
| whether any attempt has been made to corruptIy
influence he men berS OF his house IN reference
| to the passage Of House File 23S. The commit
| tee shall have power to issue suEpGelas and to
| send for persons and papers, and to employ
| sJenographer to report the testimony taken be-
| fore It, and TO sit during the sessions OF tie
house The chairman OF the committee shall
| have power 70 administer OathS to witnesses
! called before the committee. The committee
| shall have power to report at any time.
The house defeated the Merrill text book
kill by an overwhelming vote.
N THE SENATE.
The graded high license bill OF Senator
Scheiger was introduced.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To authorize county commissioners of Clay,
Wilkin, etc, to issue bonds for topograp hlc24
survey.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
ChLds, TO regulate compensation Of county
commissioners in Mcleod county; Whitema1,
to est abIish bureau of industry and statistics
| in Duluth: SwensOn. to Iegal!ze North Star
Lodge No. Is, !. 0. y. F, Of Minneapolis: ScncI-
fer. to provide for the organization OF board OF
park commissioners in 81. Pau: Crandall, con
i1rrllG the power OF franchises upon tHe COM
mon council Of Owatonna; same, to authorize
ci5y OF OWatOnna to issue bonds for aterWcrks;
ScheffCr. to authorize Henuepin and Ramsey
coLn-3es TO Issue bends tor the Marshall avenue
bridge Hayden, to authorize city OF Winona to
issue 100000 bonds for the Wlnona d South
western railway.
The senate judiciary committee has recon-
mended the bills 10 pass establishing state
public school: fixing the time Of holding terms
Of court in the Eleventh Judicial district: TO
prevent the contractors for prison labor COM
peting with he custom work of artisans: author
iZing pharmacists to sell all kinds Of liquor on
physicians certificates only; relating to tie law
OF libel.
The soldiers home bill passed yeas 10,
nays /.
SENATE.
The senate railroad committee presented
the following substitute to Mr.. Pope's bill:
Street railways are excepted from the provis-
ions of the act
One car load of freight shall be transported at
as low rate per ton per mile any greater
number CT car loads OF the same class from and
to the same points.
Discrim nation is prohibited, and cars must
be exchanged between roads.
The clause in Popes bill fixing passenger rates
at zig cents per mile, and tie clause prohibiting
passes, q c stricken out.
Pooling is prohibited, and rebates are Eot
allowed TO any person. The long and short haul
cause is retained, but the railroad commission
is given power TO suspend its operations where
the lines Of two or more competing roads run to
point common 70 both. and tie line having the
shortest line from any competing poinc to any
other point common to both has made its rates
by the application of its distance tariff
to allow the rate on the longer
line to be the same SIS by the shorter connecting
line. The operation of the distance tariff shall
be enforced until rate equal to the through
rate shall have been reached, when its operation
shall be suspended by the provisions of the
long and short haul clause.
Tables of rates shall be kept posted in all de-
pets. and no change shah be made except upon
ten days notice.
AppealS from the decisions of the railroad
commissioners to district courts is provided for.
No appeal shall stay or supersede the order ap
pcaled from in so far as ii relates to rates Cf
trans HOrtaJ1OR or to modes of tran saCting the
business OF railroad companies with the public.
unless the court hearing or deciding such case
shall SO direct.
The provision for the appointment Of 2 rail
road commission is the same as that in Popa's
bill There are TO be three com:ni ssiCners at
$4,000 rcr annun EACH and secretary st
$500.
NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
The bill was introduced in the senate yes
Je1day morning redis;ricting the judicial
districts OF the state. The scheme proposed
is as follows:
First Observation-Disclosures, Kanabec, Pine, Wash
inGton, d .kota, Wabasha.
ThirdGHennepin. Wright. Anoka, Isanti.
Fourth-Winona, 0Imsted, Dodge, Steele, Wa
SEGA.
Tifth-Rica. LIE sueur Scott, Carver.
Sixth-Blue Faith, Faribault, Martin, Walton
wan.
STANDARDIZATION, Benton, Mile Laos, Crow
Wing, Cass: Stevens Todd, Sherburnc.
Eighth-McLeod. Renvllr, Yellow Medicine,
Lac qui Parle, Big Stone. Chippewa.
Ninth-Sibley, Nicollet Brown Redwood,
Lyon, Lincoln.
Tenth-Houstou, Fillmore, Mower. Freedom.
Eleventh-St. Louis. Lake, Cook. Carlton. Ait
kin, ltasca.
Twelfth-Meeker, Kandiyohi. Swift, Pope, BIC
Stone, Stevens, Traverse.
Thirteenth-Cottonwood Jackson, Murray,
MOBILES. Pipe Stone, Polk.
FGurteenth-Wad ena, Otter Tail, Douglas,
Grant. Wiikin-
Observation-Disclosures, Becker, Clay. Norman,
Polk, Marshall, Kittson, Beltrami.
MIR. Nelson offered an amendment to Mr..
n
which adopted by the senate yesterday.
The amendment is practically n substitute for
the bill. 1t names as commission to select Il
new site for the new school the following gen
tlemeu: D. w. Iugersoil, Ramsey county;
George Barbours, Dakota county: L. W. Hoyt
Guodhue county; Andrew Knox. Mower county:
Charles w Strobeck Meeker county The new
site is to be not less than twenty miles from any
other state institution. The managers of the
institution are emp owered to erect suitable |
buildings. The cost of the site and buildings
must not exceed the amount realized from the |
sale Of the present site aud buildings.
Senator Goodrich, to whom was referred his
bill for q prohibtory amendme Mt, reported to |
the senate yesterday with the recommendation |
that it pass.
Senator Browns bill in regard to abstract
WORK in counties requires parties performing the
IN THE HOUSE
The business of the day was the consider
alton of general house orders, and number
of local bills were passed in omnibus without
debate. The freedom of traffic bill and in
terest bills were laid over owing to the sma,
attendance
The house committee on PUBIC expenditures
and accounts made their report of the condition
of the auditors Office yesterday morning, show
ing the amount of cash on hand Jan. l, 1887, |
was SlS0,OSl.S2. The bonds and securities in |
the treasury amount to ST, 722, 900. of which |
the permanent school fund amounts to SO, 20l,- |
900; Minnesota railway adjustment bonds, ST., |
9Sl, 900; Minnesota revenue bonds, $6l, 900; |
permanent university fund, $3.50 900; Ten
neosee state bonds. $40, 600: Tennessee state !
bonds, $4,000. The committee recommend |
that the state treasurer's bond of $400, 900 be |
Increased
The bill to abolish the process of garnishmcnt
introduced by Mr.. Newell, provides that when
1t shall appear satisfactory to courts that the |
sum of money garnisheed was actually earuei |
by the manual Ia Dor of any man or woman, and |
that the money is actually necessary to she sup
port of such individual, the court shall dis |
charge the garnishmenb and render Judgment IL |
favor OF the defendant without costa